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In a congenial conversation between two established artists—the former Beatle, Ringo Starr, and singer/songwriter/producer Linda Perry—no topic was off-limits. Live on American Songwriter’s Twitch channel, the duo chatted about their families, the music industry, and even the current climate crisis.

Perry also probed the drummer about his time with the Beatles, and specifically how the iconic British group formatted their band rehearsals.

“I have to mention [this] every time,” Ringo begins in his explanation of the Beatles’ rehearsals. “We made a lot more records than three of us [John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr] would have made because Paul is a workaholic.”

“He’d be the one calling, ‘Let’s go in the studio, lads.’ John and I would’ve been in the garden, you know, looking at the trees or whatever, and we’d go and make music. But when we got into the studio, that’s where we started. Paul had written a song, two songs, three songs, John’s got some, [and in] the earlier days they’d written songs together. And we just used to put it down.

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